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- This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles,
- intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups;
- to be accurate, but not exhaustive. It's cross-posted to
- comp.org.usenix and comp.unix.questions because there might be
- interest there.
-
- There are three related articles, posted at the same time as this one,
- and with subjects
- Calendar of UNIX-related Events
- Access to UNIX-Related Publications
- Access to UNIX-Related Standards
- The latter is posted only to comp.std.unix.
-
- Corrections and additions to this article are solicited. I keep track
- of the conferences, groups, and publications that I attend, am a member
- of, or subscribe to. All others (the majority of the listings) I derive
- either from listings elsewhere, or from contributions by readers.
- In particular, the meeting schedules and descriptions of most of the
- groups are provided by their members. If a group doesn't have a
- meeting schedule listed, it's because nobody has sent me one. This is
- a low-budget operation: I publish what I have on hand when the time
- comes (approximately monthly).
-
- Changes since last posting: Hungarian address. Exact JUS dates for 1989.
- AMIX events. ICX89. New OSF address.
-
- Access information is given in this article for the following:
- user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, UNIX Expo, /usr/group/cdn,
- EUUG, AFUU, UKUUG, /usr/group/uk, GUUG, i2u,
- UUGA, BUUG, DKUUG, FUUG, Hungary, ICEUUG, IUUG,
- NLUUG, NUUG, EUUG-S,
- AUUG, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, Sinix, CUUG, AMIX, ICX89,
- DECUS UNIX SIG, Sun User Group (SUG),
- Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society (ADUS),
- AT&T and Sun V.4 Software Developer Conferences,
- Open Software Foundation (OSF).
-
- Telephone numbers are given in international format, i.e., +n at
- the beginning for the country code, e.g., +44 is England, +81 Japan,
- +82 Korea, +61 Australia, +64 New Zealand, and +1 is U.S.A. or Canada.
-
- UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
-
-
- USENIX is ``The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association.''
-
- USENIX Association
- P.O. Box 2299
- Berkeley, CA 94710
- U.S.A.
- +1-415-528-8649
- {uunet,ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
- office@usenix.org
-
- USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
- as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
-
- 1989 Jan 30-Feb 3 USENIX Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA
- 1989 Jun 12-16 USENIX Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
- 1990 Jan 22-26 USENIX Washington, DC
- 1990 Jun 11-15 USENIX Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
- 1991 Jan 21-25 USENIX Dallas, TX
- 1991 Jun 10-14 USENIX Opryland, Nashville, TN
- 1992 Jan 20-24 USENIX Hilton Square, San Francisco, CA
- 1992 Jun 8-12 USENIX Marriott, San Antonio, TX
- 1993 Jan USENIX somewhere in northeast of North America
-
- They also sponsor workshops, such as
-
- 1989 Apr 3-4 Software Management Workshop Hilton, New Orleans, LA
- 1989 Oct 5-6 Dist. Systems Workshop Marriott Marina, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- 1989 Oct Large Systems Installation Workshop, Colorado Springs, CO
- 1989 Nov/Dec Graphics Workshop V
-
- Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
- the door and by mail later. Some of the older ones have been
- out of print, but reprints are being planned.
-
- USENIX publishes ``;login: The USENIX Association Newsletter''
- bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
- includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
- comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
-
- In 1988, USENIX started publishing a new refereed quarterly
- technical journal, ``Computing Systems: The Journal of the USENIX
- Association,'' in cooperation with University of California Press.
-
- They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals and distribute the
- 2.10BSD software distribution. They coordinate a software exchange for
- appropriately licensed members. They occasionally sponsor experiments,
- such as methods of improving the USENET and UUCP networks (e.g., UUNET),
- that are of interest and use to the membership.
-
- There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
- Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments Committee.
- That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix,
- which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
- There is also a USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee following several
- standards bodies. For more details, see the posting in comp.std.unix,
- ``Access to UNIX-Related Standards.''
-
-
- /usr/group is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion
- of products and services based on the UNIX operating system.
-
- /usr/group
- 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
- Santa Clara, California 95054
- U.S.A.
- tel: +1-408-986-8840
- fax: +1-408-986-1645
-
- The annual UniForum Conference and Trade Show is sponsored by /usr/group
- and features vendor exhibits, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
-
- 1989 Feb 28-Mar 2 UniForum Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
- 1990 Jan 23-26 UniForum Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
- 1991 Jan 22-25 UniForum Infomart, Dallas, TX
- 1992 Jan 21-24 UniForum Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
- 1993 Mar 2-4 UniForum Washington, D.C.
-
- Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later
- by mail.
-
- /usr/group publishes ``CommUNIXations,'' a member magazine that
- features articles by industry leaders and observers, technical issues,
- standards coverage, and new product announcements.
-
- /usr/group also publishes the ``UNIX Products Directory,'' which lists
- products and services developed specifically for the UNIX operating system.
- ``/usr/digest'' is also published by /usr/group. This newsletter covers
- product announcements and industry projections, and is sent biweekly
- to General members of /usr/group and to non-member subscribers.
-
- /usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
- having sponsored the ``/usr/group 1984 Standard,'' providing an Institutional
- Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
- Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Technical Committee
- on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced
- an executive summary, ``Your Guide to POSIX,'' and a technical overview
- ``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and
- Notes'' appendix for IEEE 1003.1.
-
-
- UNIX EXPO is an annual very large vendor exhibit in New York City
- with tutorials and technical presentations. It is held at the
- Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, with lodging arrangements with
- the Sheraton Centre Hotel, both in Manhattan.
-
- 1989 Nov 1-3 UNIX EXPO Javits Conv. C, New York, NY
-
- National Expositions Co., Inc.
- 15 West 39th Street
- New York, NY 10018
- U.S.A.
- +1-212-391-9111
- fax: +1-212-819-0755
-
- Reservations Department
- Sheraton Centre Hotel
- 811 Seventh Avenue
- New York, NY 10019
- U.S.A.
- +1-212-581-1000
- Fax: +1-212-262-4410
- Telex: 421130
-
-
- /usr/group/cdn is the Canadian branch of /usr/group, and holds an
- annual spring conference and trade show modeled after UniForum,
- usually at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. They also hold
- a UNIX in Government show in the winter in Ottawa.
-
- Exhibitors and attendees can contact:
- Fawn Lubman
- Communications 2000
- 4195 Dundas St. #201
- Etobicoke, Ontario M8X 1Y4
- Canada
- +1-416-239-3043
-
- /usr/group/cdn
- 241 Gamma St.
- Etobicoke, Ontario M8W 4G7
- Canada
- +1-416-259-8122
-
- 1989 Jan 10-11 U in Gov. C&T /usr/group/cdn, Ottawa, ON
- 1989 May U 8x/etc C&T /usr/group/cdn, Toronto, ON
-
-
- EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group, which is currently
- celebrating its tenth anniversary. EUUG is closely coordinated with
- national groups in Europe, and with the European UNIX network, EUnet.
-
- EUUG secretariat
- Owles Hall
- Buntingford
- Herts SG9 9PL
- England
- +44 763 73039
- fax: +44 763 73255
- uunet!mcvax!inset!euug
- euug@inset.co.uk
-
- They have a quarterly newsletter, EUUGN, and hold two conferences a year:
-
- 1989 Apr 3-7 EUUG Palais des Congres, Brussels, Belgium
- Chair: Prof Marc Nyssen
- <marc@minf.vub.uucp>
- uunet!mcvax!prlb2!vub!minf1!marc
- +32-2-477-4000
- fax: +32-2-477-4424
- Medical Informaticas Dept.
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Laarbeeklaan 103
- B-1090 Jette
- Belgium
-
- 1989 Sep 18-22 EUUG WU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Chair: eva Kuehn
- 1990 Apr 23-27 EUUG Munich, Germany (tentative)
- 1990 Autumn EUUG south of France
- 1991 Spring EUUG Tromso?, Norway (tentative)
- 1992 Spring EUUG Jersey, U.K. (tentative)
- 1992 Autumn EUUG Amsterdam, Netherlands (tentative)
-
-
- AFUU is the Association Franc\*,aise des Utilisateurs d'UNIX,
- or French UNIX Users' Group. They are holding a small convention
- in November and a large one in the spring with tutorials and a
- vendor exhibit.
-
- AFUU
- 11 Rue Carnot
- 94270 Le Kremlin Bicetre
- France
- +33-1-4670-9590
- Telex: 263 887 F
-
- 1989 Feb 28-Mar 3 U Convention AFUU, Paris, France
-
- UKUUG is the United Kingdom Unix systems Users' Group.
-
- Bill Barrett
- UKUUG
- Owles Hall
- Buntingford
- Herts. SG9 9PL
- United Kingdom
- +44 763 73039
-
- 1988 Dec 19-20 UKUUG London
-
-
- /usr/group/UK is the U.K. affiliate of /usr/group, and holds an annual
- COMUNIX Conference in June in conjunction with the European UNIX User Show,
- which is an achibition organised by EMAP INternation Exhibitions.
-
- Tracy MacIntyre
- Exhibition Manager
- EMAP International Exhibitions Ltd.
- Abbot's Court
- 34 Farringdon Lane
- London EC1R 3AU
- United Kingdom
- +44-1-404-4844
-
- 1989 Jun 7-9 COMUNIX /usr/group/UK, Alexandra Palace, London
- 1989 Jun 7-9 Eur. U User Show EMAP Int. Exh., Alexandra Palace, London
-
-
- The German UNIX Systems User Group (GUUG) has an annual convention in the fall.
-
- Dieter Laengle
- AIC Software
- Mozartstrasse 3
- D-8000, Muenchen 2
- Federal Republic of Germany
- +49 89 5380503
- laengle@aicmuc.uucp
-
-
- The Italian UNIX Systems User Group (i2u) holds an annual summer
- Italian UNIX Convention, with tutorials and a vendor exhibition.
-
- Carlo Mortarino
- i2u Secretariat
- Via Monza, 347
- 20126 Milano
- Italy
- +39-2-2520-2530
- i2u@i2unix.uucp
-
- 1989 Jun Italian U C i2u, Italy
-
- The following information about European groups courtesy EUUG:
-
- Austria (UUGA)
- Friedrich Kofler
- c/o Austro Olivetti
- Rennwe 9
- A-1030 Vienna
- Austria
- +43 222 7345010
- kofler@oliol.uucp
-
- Belgium (BUUG)
- Marc Nyssen
- Department of Medical Informatics
- VUB
- Laarbeeklaan 103
- B-1090 Brussels
- Belgium
- +32 2 4784890 Ext. 1424
- buug@vub.uucp
-
- Denmark (DKUUG)
- Mogens Buhelt
- Kabbeleejvej 27B
- DK-2700 Bronshoj
- Denmark
- +45 2 865533
- dkuug@diku.dk
-
- Finland (FUUG)
- Johan Helsingius
- Oy Penetron Ab
- Box 21
- 02171 Espoo
- Finland
- +358 0 427632 or 673280
- julf@penet.fi
-
- Hungary
- Dr El\o'o^'d Knuth
- Computer and Automation Institute
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- P.O. Box 63
- H-1502 Budapest 112
- Hungary
- +36 1 665 435
-
-
-
- Iceland (ICEUUG)
- Marius Olafsson
- University Computer Center
- Hjardarhaga 4
- Reykjavik
- Iceland
- +354 1 25088
- iceuug@rhi.is
-
- Ireland (IUUG)
- John Carolan
- Glockenspiel Ltd.
- 19 Belvedere Place
- Dublin
- Ireland
- +353 1364515
- john@puschi.uucp
-
- Netherlands (NLUUG)
- Patricia H. Otter
- c/o Xirion bv.
- World Trade Centre
- Strawinskylaan 1135
- 1077 XX Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
- +31 206649411
- patricia@xirion.uucp
-
- Norway (NUUG)
- Jan Brandt Jensen
- NUUG
- c/o Unisoft A.S.
- Enebakkvn 154
- N-O680 Oslo 6
- Norway
- +47 2 688970
- ndosl!ZEUS!jan
-
- Sweden (EUUG-S)
- Hans Johansson
- NCR Svenska AB
- Box 1206
- S-164 28 Kista
- Sweden
- euug@enea.se
-
-
- AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group.
-
- Tim Roper
- Secretary
- AUUG
- timr@labtam.oz.au
- uunet!labtam.oz.au!timr
-
- AUUG
- P.O. Box 366
- Kensington
- N.S.W. 2033
- Australia
- uunet!munnari!auug
- auug@munnari.oz.au
-
- Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
-
- AUUG holds one major national Conference and Exhibition per year during
- August or September, and regional, technical meetings in February or
- March. The next one will be
-
- 1989 Aug 8-11 AUUG Hilton Hotel, Sydney
-
- There will be tutorials on 8 August, and technical sessions the other
- two days. The vendor exhibition will be open from the afternoon of
- 8 August through the morning of 11 August.
-
- They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months.
-
-
- The New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group, Inc. (NZUSUGI) has an annual meeting
- and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.''
-
- New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
- P.O. Box 585
- Hamilton
- New Zealand
- +64-9-454000
-
-
-
- The Japan UNIX Society has three meetings a year, and a newsletter.
- The JUS UNIX Symposium is held twice annually, once in the winter and
- once in the summer. It has technical presentations, tutorials,
- and a vendor exhibit. The JUS UNIX Fair is held once a year, and
- has a vendor exhibit, tutorials, and seminars.
-
- Japan UNIX Society (JUS)
- #505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg.
- 2-12 Hayabusa-cho
- Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
- Japan
- bod%jus.junet@uunet.uu.net
- +81-3-234-5058
-
- UNIX Fair '88 Association
- 1-1-1 Hirakawa-chu,
- Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
- Japan
-
- 1988 Dec 7-8 JUS UNIX FAIR '88 Tokyo, Japan
- 1989 Jul 10-12 13th JUS UNIX S Tokyo
- 1989 Nov 9-10 14th JUS UNIX S Osaka
- 1989 Dec 5-6 UNIX Fair '89 JUS, Tokyo
-
- The Korean UNIX User Group (KUUG) has a software distribution service
- and a newsletter. They hold an annual Korean UNIX Symposium in the winter.
-
- Korean UNIX User Group
- ETRI
- P.O. Box 8
- Daedug Science Town
- Dae Jeon CIty
- Chungnam 301-350
- Republic of Korea
-
- Kee Wook Rim
- rim@kiet.etri.re.kr
- +82-42-822-4455 x4646
- fax: +82-42-823-1033
-
- 1988 Dec 10 Korean U S KUUG, Korea
-
-
- The Singapore UNIX Association (Sinix) holds an annual Southeast Asian
- Regional Computer Conference.
-
- James Clark
- Sinix
- c/o Computer Systems Advisers, Ltd.
- 203 Henderson Industrial Park
- Wing B #1207-1214
- Singapore 0315
- +65-273-0681
- fax: 65-278-1783
-
-
- The China UNIX User Group (CUUG) is the Chinese /usr/group affiliate.
-
- Xu Kongshi
- China UNIX User Group
- P.O. Box 8718
- Beijing, 100080
- People's Republic of China
- +86-1-282013
-
- AMIX - the Israeli UNIX user group, is a S.I.G. of the Israeli Processing
- Association (IPA). AMIX has a yearly conference and other activities:
-
- 1989 January 25 One day tutorial on "UNIX Interfaces",
- given by Dr. M. Bach and Dr. J. Issacson, at Kfar Hamacabia, Israel.
-
- 1989 January 26 One day workshop on "Graphical User Interfaces",
- talks on DEC XUI, HP NewWave, Apollo OpenDialogue, Sun/ATT OpenLook,
- and SCO Xenix Multiview), also at Kfar Hamacabia, Israel.
-
- 1989 May 14-16 4th AMIX conference. Theme - "UNIX in Israel - Research,
- Development and Implementation". A balanced mixture of
- technical sessions and tutorials is planned.
- Also at Kfar Hamacabia, Israel.
-
- AMIX, c/o IPA
- P.O. Box 919
- Ramat-Gan
- Israel, 52109
- Tel: +972-3-715770
- Tel: +972-3-715772
- amix@bimacs.bitnet
- amix@bimacs.biu.ac.il
-
-
-
- ICX89 is the First International Conference on Advanced Computing,
- and is being organised by the IEEE Student Branch and the Department
- of Electronics of the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (USM).
- ``This first conference will be devoted to the UNIX operating
- system and related topics. This subject was chosen to establish
- the universal character of this event, as UNIX is now considered.''
- There will be a plenary, technical sessions, tutorials, and vendor
- and book exhibitions. Official languages will be English and Spanish,
- with simultaneous translation.
-
- Submissions of tecnical papers or abstracts should be by three
- paper copies or by electronic mail by 15 January 1989. Preliminary
- notification of acceptance will be by February 15th, 1989.
- Final versions of the papers should be written according to
- the IEEE transaction format, and are are due by April 14th, 1989.
- Final official notification will be sent by May 15th, 1989.
-
- 1989 Jun 19-23 ICX89 IEEE, USM, Valparaiso, Chile
-
- Submissions:
-
- Prof. Leopoldo Silva B.
- Department of Electronics
- lsb@usmcsd.utfsm.cl
- uunet!uchdcc!usmcsd!lsb
-
- Other correspondence:
-
- ICX89
- Organizing Committee
- icx89@usmcsd.utfsm.cl
- uunet!uchdcc!usmcsd!icx89
- +56-32-66-0176 AX 359
- Telex: 330622 UTFSM CX
- Fax: 056 32 660176 147
-
- Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
- P.O. Box 110-V
- Valparaiso
- Chile
-
-
- There are similar groups in other parts of the world. If such a group
- wishes to be included in later versions of this access list, they
- should please send me information.
-
- There is a partial list of national organizations in the November/December
- 1987 CommUNIXations.
-
-
-
- DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
- has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) that participates
- in its general meetings, which are held twice a year.
-
- DECUS U.S. Chapter
- 219 Boston Post Road, BP02
- Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
- U.S.A.
- +1-617-480-3418
-
- The next DECUS Symposia are:
-
- 1989 May 8-12 DECUS S Atlanta, Georgia
- 1989 Nov 6-10 DECUS S Anaheim, California
- 1990 May 7-11 DECUS S New Orleans, Louisiana
-
- See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
-
-
- The Sun User Group (SUG) is an international organization that promotes
- communication among Sun users, OEMs, third party vendors, and Sun
- Microsystems, Inc. SUG sponsors conferences, collects and distributes
- software, produces the README newsletter and T-shirts, sponsors local
- user groups, and communicates members' problems to Sun employees and
- management.
-
- Sun Microsystems User Group, Inc.
- 2550 Garcia Avenue
- Mountain View, CA 94043
- U.S.A.
- +1 415 960 1300
- users@sun.com
- sun!users
-
- Their next annual conference is:
-
- 1989 Dec SUG ?
-
-
- ADUS is the Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society:
-
- Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
- c/o Andrea Woloski, ADUS Coordinator
- Apollo Computer Inc.
- 330 Billerica Rd.
- Chelmsford, MA 01824
- +1-617-256-6600, x4448
-
-
-
- AT&T and Sun Microsystems have held a series of
- Software Developer Conferences on System V Release 4.0,
- related to the Sun/AT&T Applications Binary Interface (ABI).
-
- 1988 Sep 14-16 V.4 Soft. Dev. Hanover, NJ
- 1988 Sep 27-29 V.4 Soft. Dev. Los Angeles, CA
- 1988 Oct 12-14 V.4 Soft. Dev. Tokyo, Japan
- 1988 Oct 26-28 V.4 Soft. Dev. London, England
- 1988 Nov 9-11 V.4 Soft. Dev. Boston, MA
- 1988 Nov 29-Dec 1 V.4 Soft. Dev. Chicago, IL
- 1988 Dec 6-8 V.4 Soft. Dev. San Francisco, CA
- 1988 Dec 13-15 V.4 Soft. Dev. Washington D.C.
-
- For more information:
- Melinda L. Marrs
- 1-800-387-6100
- melinda@Sun.COM
- Conference Coordinator
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Garcia St.
- Mountain View, CA
- U.S.A.
-
-
- The Open Software Foundation (OSF) is a vendor group formed 17 May 1988
- by Apollo, Bull, DEC, HP, IBM, Nixdorff, and Siemens, and later joined
- by Philips. Excerpts from a press release of that date:
-
- The Open Software Foundation (OSF) will develop a software environment,
- including application interfaces, advanced system extensions, and a new
- operating system, using X/Open(tm) and POSIX* specifications as the
- starting point. ... OSF membership is available to computer hardware
- and software suppliers, educational institutions, and government
- agencies around the world. ... The foundation has a management
- organization, staff, and a funding comittment in excess of $90 million
- to begin immediate operations. Its initial development will be based
- on technologies offered by the members and its own research, to be
- carried out worldwide.
-
- A research institute is being created to fund research for the
- advancement of applications portability, interoperability standards,
- and other advanced technologies for future foundation use. An
- academic advisory panel will provide guidance and input to the
- institute. The Institute's research will be conducted worldwide.
-
- For more information, contact:
-
- +1-617-621-8700
- Larry Lytle or Gary McCormack
- Open Software Foundation
- 11 Cambridge Center
- Cambridge, MA 02139
- U.S.A.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 6
-
-